Cisco Solutions

Cisco Systems, Inc. is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet. Today, networks are an essential part of business, education, government and home communications, and Cisco Internet Protocol-based (IP) networking solutions are the foundation of these networks.

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Switching

Cisco Borderless Networks products and solutions can help your business scale as needed, while providing cost optimization, investment protection, and added functionality.

Cisco Borderless Networks products and solutions can help your business scale as needed, while providing cost optimization, investment protection, and added functionality. Expect more from your network, and save more on operations through innovations. Cisco Catalyst Series Switches are simply the best choice.

Cisco switches work at the core of all networks -- supporting a myriad of high-speed connectivity, application, and communications requirements.

Today’s networks must efficiently and securely transmit bandwidth-intensive data, voice, video, and wireless applications, while adapting to evolving traffic patterns, new services, and the challenge of optimizing application performance.

Cisco switches are designed to facilitate these changes, while helping to ensure the smooth and effective transport of communications on a continuous basis.

Technologies and features inherent to Cisco switches help organizations increase productivity and control costs in three critical areas -- whether those switches are deployed to support campus LAN, data center, or service provider implementations:

Cisco routing solutions take a systems-level approach by embedding security into the network and integrating business-critical services across all products to help you boost productivity, meet customer needs, and reduce operating costs.

Having a network platform that facilitates technological innovation and supports critical services is an essential business requirement. Cisco routers can help your business build the foundation for an intelligent, self-defending network that features best-in-class security services and advanced routing technologies.

In addition to providing a platform that helps optimize the delivery of applications and communications, Cisco routers:

Use an integrated systems approach that provides inherent manageability

Deliver the lowest total cost of ownership and the highest return on investment

Include integrated network router solutions that are highly secure, flexible, and built to be compatible with future technologies

Provide a framework for wireless LAN solutions to take advantage of the existing tools, knowledge, and resources of the wired infrastructure

Optimize services at branch locations with multi-service solutions that deliver the performance, scalability, availability, and reliability you need.

Cisco's expertise in securing enterprise architectures helps you combine enablement with protection. Our security solutions can help you protect your people, information, applications, and network. With Cisco security solutions, you can expand your company's productivity with the confidence that you are minimizing IT security risk.

Built on more than 15 years of network security adaptation and real-world validated implementation, the Cisco Secure Borderless Network delivers capabilities that:

Decrease risk by balancing flexibility and enablement with protection

Integrate into any environment, with on-premises, integrated, and software-as-a-service security designs

VoIP and IP telephony are becoming increasingly popular with large corporations and consumers alike. For many people, Internet Protocol (IP) is more than just a way to transport data, it's also a tool that simplifies and streamlines a wide range of business applications. Telephony is the most obvious example. VoIP—or voice over IP—is also the foundation for more advanced unified communications applications—including Web and video conferencing—that can transform the way you do business.

VoIP refers to a way to carry phone calls over an IP data network, whether on the Internet or your own internal network. A primary attraction of VoIP is its ability to help reduce expenses because telephone calls travel over the data network rather than the phone company's network.

IP telephony encompasses the full suite of VoIP enabled services including the interconnection of phones for communications; related services such as billing and dialing plans; and basic features such as conferencing, transfer, forward, and hold. These services might previously have been provided by a PBX.

IP communications includes business applications that enhance communications to enable features such as unified messaging, integrated contact centers, and rich-media conferencing with voice, data, and video.

Unified communications takes IP communications a step further by using such technologies as Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and presence along with mobility solutions to unify and simply all forms of communications, independent of location, time, or device. (Learn more about unified communications.)

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Servers

Cisco Server solutions deliver unified computing in an industry-standard form factor to reduce total cost of ownership and increase agility.

With Cisco UCS servers, you can dramatically reduce the number of devices your organization must purchase, deploy, and maintain. Cisco UCS servers simplify traditional architectures and optimize your virtualized environments end-to-end. With Cisco servers you can support bare-metal applications in the same environment.

Accelerate Server Deployment

The smart, programmable infrastructure of Cisco UCS simplifies and speeds enterprise-class application and service deployment in bare-metal, virtualized, and cloud computing environments. With unified model-based management, configuring hundreds of servers is as fast as configuring just one server -- with lower cost of ownership and improved business continuity.

Simplify Management

Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) offers simplified and open management with a large partner ecosystem. Cisco UCS Manager provides embedded management of all software and hardware components in Cisco UCS.

Cisco introduced telepresence to bring people together virtually, with an experience so real and lifelike that you felt like you were in the same room as someone even when they were thousands of miles away. Hundreds of millions of "in-person" meetings have taken place, changing how people work, allowing them to do more with less time and to do it across the globe.

What started out as a technology that would alter the way we meet has evolved into something much more. It is transforming the very way that organizations do business. Forever changing how a stroke patient in a small town receives an opinion from a specialist in a big city, how a student in the United States learns a new language from a teacher in Spain and how a petroleum rig operator in the North Sea seeks subject matter expertise from an engineer in Houston.